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The Jan McDonald Jazz Trio will perform from 7:30-9:30 p.m. Saturday at the Blue Window Bistro. Tickets are $15 per person and dinner reservations are required.

Lads of Enchantment, a chapter of the Barbershop Harmony Society, invites the public to join them in song. Besides the enjoyment of singing in harmony, barbershop chorus and quartets experience the thrill of performing in the community. They meet at 7:15 p.m. on Thursdays at the United Church of Los Alamos, Graves Hall. Attendees will find their chapter meetings are well planned, musically satisfying and fun. Visitors are welcome.

Leather bound and one-cloth books with marbled end papers, gilded edges and print with an elegant typeface have always been aesthetic objects: works not just of literary art but of visual art also.
The Palace of the Governors Press has created an exhibit about the art of the printed word, the art of the broadside — a simple one-sided sheet of printed paper, which originated in 16th century England. And, LIBROS, the Albuquerque-based group of the New Mexico Book Arts Guild has created an exhibit of books as art.
Both exhibits are showing at Mesa Public Library Art Gallery throughout the month of June: explore these forms of books and the printed word.

LOS ANGELES — Hollywood has hustled up a hangover for the record books.
“The Hangover Part II” set a new high for comedy debuts with $105.8 million over the long Memorial Day weekend, according to studio estimates Sunday.
The blockbuster sequel also led Hollywood to a new revenue record of around $280 million for the holiday weekend, according to box-office tracker Hollywood.com.
That surpassed the previous record of $254.6 million in 2007. But factoring in today’s higher admission prices, more tickets were sold over the Memorial Day holiday that year than this past weekend.

WASHINGTON — PBS officials say hackers have cracked the network’s website, posting a phony story claiming dead rapper Tupac Shakur was alive in New Zealand, and a group that claimed responsibility for the hacking complained about a recent “Frontline” investigative news program on WikiLeaks.
PBS confirmed Monday that the website had been hacked. The phony story had been taken down as of Monday morning. It had been posted on the site of the “PBS NewsHour” program, which is produced by WETA-TV in Arlington, Va.

DALLAS — A Texas man is suing comedian Andy Dick over his December performance at a Dallas nightclub.
Robert Tucker claims he suffered emotional distress and defamation as a result of an alleged incident in which Dick exposed his genitals while walking through the audience.
The suit filed May 10 also names a talent agency that represents the comedian and the club where he performed. It says they should have known Dick’s “long history of assaulting patrons.”
The lawsuit cites Dick’s January 2010 arrest on felony sexual abuse charges, after allegations he groped a bouncer and patron at a Huntington, W. Va., bar, as well as other incidents.

Blink and you might miss it. Embudo is that kind of a place. But take the time for a leisurely drive between Velarde and Taos, and you’ll find a quaint community that offers rafting, eateries and wineries.
Nestled between the Rio Grande and mountains that seem to reach for the sky, Embudo with a population of 383, is a quiet little community spotted with residences and a couple of restaurants in between.

Village Arts surprised artists and those who want to try their hand at it recently by giving out nearly 50 unique, random frames to customers.
Individuals who received the frames were asked to fill the frames with artwork of their choice and to bring them back to Village Arts for a month-long showing.
Village Arts staff chose and built uniquely sized and styled wooden frames, hoping to inspire individuals to create a piece of work to compliment the frame.
The staff wasn’t disappointed.
“Normally customers come to us to find a frame that enhances their work” said Village Arts co-owner Ken Nebel. “This time, we turned the tables on them, and the results are fantastic.”